Page 29 - Celebrating Swiss Independence

1919 Inland Postcard

Three picture subjects were chosen for Keller’s birth centenary, each printed with the 7½c Tell Boy Type II, but the
fourth card was issued with an imprinted ‘Peace’ stamp, designed by Edouard Vallet and engraved by Jean Sprenger.

13 August 1919: card with imprinted 7½c Peace stamp, addressed to Monmollin in Canton Neuchâtel
LOCLE dispatch cds 13.VIII.19

(Reproduction) sketch of Keller
dated 1889, by Arnold Böcklin
(1827-1901)

Noted for his German stories, novels,
poems, and sketches of Swiss life,
Keller first studied art at Munich but
lack of means compelled him to
return to Switzerland, where he
received a pension enabling him to
study philosophy at Heidelberg.

Sale price: 30-35c, including a donation to the Fund for Creative Artists and the Schiller Fund for Writers